chilli-headscom

Anybody on here like to grow chilli peppers? It's great adding your own home
grown peppers to your hot Indian curries. I've been growing them for the
past few years now and you get surprisingly good results here in the UK.
This growing season started off a bit iffy with the weather, but the sun has
been shining over the past few weeks and my Cayenne chilli plants have some
nice big peppers growing on them now! Can't wait to eat them later in the
summer.
I'd be interested in hearing if others enjoy growing them also.
If you are interested in chillies and hot and spicy food, I've just started
a website dedicated to chillies and spicy food. I just launched a recipes
section yesterday and will be adding more and more recipes including
restaurant style Indian curries. I'm also selling chilli seeds and curry
pastes through the site including the second hottest chilli seed variety in
the world (The Caribbean Red Habanero at 475,000 scovilles). I will be
opening up a discussion forum on the site as well so that people can share
their growing tips and spicy recipes!

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dave fawthrop

| Anybody on here like to grow chilli peppers?

Chillies are as common as potatoes in the Asian shops in Bradford, so there
is no need to grow your own.

Now if I could find Jalapeno seeds I would perhaps be interested because I
can eat them raw as a garnish. Problem is that anything I plant dies, so
I would have to get June interested. Anything she plants turns into
thou^h^h^h^hmillions of huge healthy plants. --
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ace

Yeah, been doing so for many years.


Why is it that people who are obviously aware of Usenet think that
web-based discussion boards are a good idea? I've tried a few in my
time but always give up after a month or two 'cos they're always so
difficult to use comapred with even a half-decent newsreader.

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elaine jones

Quoting from message <viavb1td1m123t73ish4q104sabbtf1274@4ax.com>
posted on 27 Jun 2005 by Ace
I would like to add:


Agreed; I find them very difficult to follow compared with the threads,
sub-threads/branches in my news and mailreader.

A mailing list would be preferred if there is no suitable newsgroup.

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ben blaney

They're SO slow!

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Ben Blaney

chilli-headscom

It's not that forums are preferred to Usenet, it's probably just because
some sites like mine, like to interact with anyone who has bought seeds from
me. It's not really fair to clog up a newsgroup with all the customer chat.

How do you go about starting a new newsgroup anyway? Is that an easy enough
thing to do?

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Regards,
Greg (http://www.chilli-heads.com)

dave fawthrop

| It's not that forums are preferred to Usenet, it's probably just because
| some sites like mine, like to interact with anyone who has bought seeds from
| me. It's not really fair to clog up a newsgroup with all the customer chat.
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| How do you go about starting a new newsgroup anyway? Is that an easy enough
| thing to do?

You send an RFD Request for discussion to Control, then enter the bear pit
of uk.net.news.config. There are Mentors to help.

It is IMO probably not a good idea to create any more new uk.food+drink.*
newsgroup ATM ufd.Indian and ufd.chinese are OK but low volume. --
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nicholas

Just bought three plants from a garden centre (the last three, unknown
variety). They are flowering (white flowers) however many of the stems
on which the flowers reside have turned a little black - some flowers
are dying. Any ideas?
Mailto:
agentmail@nicf.demon.co-dot-uk

gareth

Black isn't abnormal - chilli plants often blacken where the stems joins the
plant. I don't know why but I see it almost every time I grow chillies.

As for flowers falling - that can be normal as well if the plant is unable
to sustain too many chillies. But it can also signify too hot a night time
temperature. Try putting the plants in a cooler (but not a cool) place. Some
seem to do very well in a greenhouse from potting to fruiting but others
don't seem to thrive in greenhouse conditions. Apparently night time temps
can be a problem for some plants.

Gareth.

chilli trading company

Greg,

I have been growing them on the windowsill for years but I have now moved to
a smallholding in Wales and have a polytunnel - I now have 30+ varieties! It
is amazing the variety of flavours (I don't just go in for heat!) and
Indian/Thai/African cooking tastes so much better if you use an appropriate
variety of chilli not just an American derived one.

I mainly grow for my self but do sell my surplus by post.

Karen Dixon
Chilli Trading Company
http://www.chillitraders.co.uk